When looking for help to stay on track, many people search for an app that can do it all. Sometimes the drive for more can push consumers to miss the basic solutions that may be more efficient. A simple app like Reminders can help people with the basic things without all the drama of a calendar event or major information entry.

Key Takeaways:

There are apps to manage your projects and notes. There are apps to turn your Post-It scribbles into shareable notes. There are even apps to divide your to-do list into handy little folders.

As someone who will never, ever remember something if I don’t write it down somewhere, I started typing in groceries to be purchased and phone calls to be made a few years back.

I figure she probably did what I did with most of the default apps that came with my phone after realizing they can’t be deleted: shuttled them into a folder, never to be seen or used again.

“As someone who will never, ever remember something if I don’t write it down somewhere, I started typing in groceries to be purchased and phone calls to be made a few years back.”